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 s. vii. MAR. i, 1913.] NOTES AXD QUERIES.

" Item acquisierunt (religiosse S. Saturn. Tolos.) titulo emptionis . . . . quatuor Cus- sones ad allodium, tenentes tria sextaria. . . . frumenti ad mensuram Bazani." A cross- reference calls attention to another article: " Cur*orin,m, Corsorium, Cossorium, Arelatibus Cossou vel Conssou. Sic vocantur apud Arelatenses sinful pascuorum portiones, qnas in planitie de Cravo singnli tenent pascendarum ovium causa hvemis tern pore. Vocia etymon a Ciirsu, quod intra Cursorii limites pecori liceat Currere et pascere."

Quotations follow from charters dated 1221, 1225. and 1216. L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

MONUMENTS AT WARWICK ( 1 1 S. vii. 9, 57, 93). When I was visiting St. Mary's Church a short time ago. the verger kindly lent me a book which, I believe, contains copies of most of the monumental inscriptions in'the interior of the edifice. From a note taken at the time I gather that it is entitled c Notes of the Church of St. Mary, and the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick,' by H. T. Cooke (1835). I would also refer the querist to the late Mr. Albert Hartshorne's paper ' On the Monuments and Effigies in St. Mary's Church, and the Beauchamp Chapel, War- wick,' in The Archaeological Journal, vol. xiv. p. 238. This was reprinted as a pam- phlet in 1888 by Wm. Pollard & Co., Exeter. Several sheets of measured drawings by Mr. Harold Brakspear of the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, were given in The Builder of 31 Jan., 1891.

OCTAGONAL MEETING-HOUSES (11 S. vii. 27, 72). The Baptist Chapel in Belvoir Street, Leicester, is circular in form. It is (or used to be in the early seventies) known locally as the " Pork Pie Chapel."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

CHRISTMAS RIMERS IN ULSTER (US. vii. 81). I was much interested in MR. LEPPER'S article, recalling as it did similar scenes I last witnessed in the same county of Down in the winter of 1870-71. But I am rather surprised that the writer does not know of the existence of ' The New Christmas Rhyme Book ' (32mo, pp. 16), with its quaint century-old woodcuts, issued by J. Nicholson of Church Lane, Belfast, for one halfpenny, and still, I believe, to be obtained there, which in my time was the Rimer's vode- mecum. There were, of course, always additions or accretions, topical allusions by some local wag.

I would especially caution MR. LEPPER to beware of the temptation of reading into a

folk-rime what is not there. His English dialect word " dowt " is recte " Little Devil Doubt " (see Oliver Onions's novel of that name, passim). Bad hearing makes bad rehearsing, and in my time the magic medicine was " allycompain." His theory of " pricking a plague patient with a needle infected " (I write as a medical man, with all due deference to a brother's opinion) is blown to smithereens by the complete, nonsensical couplet,

I can cure the plague within, the plague without, The palsy or the gout.

" Two -bob bits" are, of course, florins ; and brass " fardens " were in circulation in Belfast until the seventies, so one need not go back to the times of " the Drapier " or Tyrconnell for references.

In Sir John Byers's ' Sayings, Proverbs, and Humour of Ulster ' (Belfast, 1904) will be found Armagli and Ballymoney variants of the " Rhymes."

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVEB.'

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

JOHNNORRIS: NORRIS OF SPATE (11 S*

vi. 251, 428; vii. 150). The notes which follow are in continuation of those already printed. I advise W. N. H. to look for further information in the registers of those parishes which I specially named in my former article, and also to search in the- various testamentary courts at Wells, to the contents of which there are at present, alas f no printed calendars. Donyatt. The wills of John 1546, Thomas 1578,

Hugh 1581, John 1755, Susannah 1780, are-

at Taunton. Vide. ' Taunton Wills,' parts i.

and iv. Elizabeth Norris (of Donyatt) m. Arthur Ames

of Ilminster, 19 Sept., 1654. Somerset and

Dorset Notes anil Queries, ii. 77. Dulverton. The wills of George 1575 and William

1619 are at Taunton. Vide ' Taunton Wills/

parts i. and iv. Dunster. The will of Mary 1674 is at Taunton.

Vide ' Taunton Wills, 5 part iv. East Chinnock. Will of John 1615 is in P.C.CV

[115 Rudd]. - Exford. The wills of Hugh 1632, Ozias 1660 r

Joane 1665, are at Taunton. Fide ' Taunton

Wills,' part iv. Exton. William Norris, B.A. Instituted to the-

living 8 Sept., 1713. Anna Norris patroness.

There is a monument to Rev. W. Norris and

Anne his wife in Exton Church. Collinson,.

iii. 527. John Norris, son of Robert, of Exton, Somerset,.

cler. Balliol Coll., matric. 12 Nov., 1761,

aged 18. Foster's ' Alumni,' First Series,

vol. iii. The will of William 1764 is at Taunton.

Vide ' Taunton Wills,' part iv.